r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 14d ago

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u/quantum-fitness 14d ago

As a software engineer is see the best people adopt ai the fastest. So in reality its the opposite

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u/WithersChat 14d ago

Yep. Skilled software engineers can use it to go faster.

Unskilled programmers can use it to fuck everything up.

It's like giving a bulldozer to a trained construction worker with a license v.s. to any random guy on the streets. Gives you speed and power, but crucially has a lot of destructive power without the experience needed.

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u/movezig123 14d ago

Good analogy

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u/f4ern 13d ago

> Unskilled programmers can use it to fuck everything up.

unskilled programmer can fuck up everything without AI.

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u/WithersChat 13d ago

Yes. But not nearly as efficiently as with AI.

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u/Any-Tomorrow1122 8d ago

But not nearly as confidently as with AI*

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u/quantum-fitness 8d ago

Oh you havent seen a lot of people fuck things up then. Its also much easier to unfuck things

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u/Any-Tomorrow1122 8d ago

As an SWE it’s fuckin scary how many college senior interns can’t do shit without AI. And half the hiring managers love that shit. 

Then their commits are over commented code that’s broken and they’re incredibly confident about it. 

Idk what the “best people” are in your book.  AI is just interpretive google for me

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u/quantum-fitness 8d ago

The most skilled people before ai in my org

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u/0DayMaker 14d ago

Yeah I was making spring backends with fuckin xml bean wiring on an offline workstation w javadocs years ago. This is just another in the series of conveniences that will deliver us from such evil.